Marchette Chute

As a biographer, she specialized in English literary figures; she published biographies of Geoffrey Chaucer, Ben Jonson, and William Shakespeare.

1907) (writing as "M. G. Chute") published, among other work, at least twenty stories in a series about "Sheriff John Charles Olson" in the Saturday Evening Post from 1938 to 1953.

With her sister Mary Grace, Marchette Chute wrote "Sweet Genevieve", a Broadway comedy which closed after one performance on March 20, 1945.

In each case, Chute attempted to write as an independent scholar with the ability to revisit and develop holistic portraits of her subjects based upon limited documentary evidence placed in a context of overall English social history.

She also published a dual biography of George Herbert and Robert Herrick, Two Gentle Men, in 1959; it was a National Book Award finalist in 1960.